A #fiskarsflatlay for ye #flatlayfriday digging peeps. I don’t collect scissors or stuff made by the local company #fiskars just a drive and a wedge from where I live, but as I like anything old, functional and beautiful I do end up with a few of them. They’re dirt easy to sharpen and clean up and they lure women to my sales table. 😎 I have one pair of these in almost every room in the house. Local people are still quite keen on them so they tend to sell well too.
Slide two shows a pair which I think most will recognize. The brand name varies in different countries but if you think you had a pair of Gerber or Wilkinson scissors you were wrong. They were all Fiskars, just branded differently. They don’t make them with orange handles anymore - and although I can see why I think they’re pretty 1980s cool in this colour. Scissors for lefties used to be red. Today I think they’re all black. Just like its predecessor which is strikingly similar.
The keen eyed observer will also spot a rare Hackman made pair of scissors, made in the city of Wiborg, once the cultural capital of Finland and nowadays a part of Russia. Although Hackman is associated largely with #sorsakoski where most of their production was made, they clearly had som business in Wiborg too.
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I swear I wasn’t gonna but anything else than vegetables from the morning market. But then I saw this beauty sitting so lonely on a table and it was love at first sight. 😍 I didn’t need it, I had a very nice one from before but everything about it appealed to me. A simple design and very typical for my country but well made by someone who knew what he/she was doing. The wood could be any local leaf tree but my money is on birch root which also explains the tear out in the sides. Birch root is very tough, cross grained, durable and commonly available and makes a really good choice for wooden hand planes.
Obviously the early #eaberg iron was a boon which did promote the buy too.
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